Book Launch, symposium and student workshop at OCAD university, Toronto Jan 31 - Feb 1BOOK LAUNCH, SYMPOSIUM & STUDENT WORKSHOP

January 31st & February 1st, 2013

presented by NCE GRAND and OCAD University

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The Banff New Media Institute Dialogues (Sarah Cook & Sara Diamond, editors), you are cordially invited to attend a monumental gathering of leading media scholars and industry leaders for a two-day event that will expand upon the seven chapters of said publication and investigate the future of digital media research through its social, cultural and industrial implications.


The Banff New Media Institute (1995-2010) in the awe-inspiring Rocky Mountains was a dynamic international centre that addressed dramatically changing times—the heady rise of the digital age, its tumultuous descent, and its reformulation. BNMI hosted leading artists, designers, computer scientists and engineers, mathematicians, physicists, biologists, chemists, humanists, social scientists, and medical researchers. Its cutting edge summits (think tanks) foretold that future. These occurred at The Banff Centre, side by side with international artists' residencies, co-productions, transdisciplinary research, new media exhibitions and the incubation of commercial products and companies. The BNMI predicted and shaped trends in digital media.

The Euphoria & Dystopia symposium invites reflection on the digital concerns of the 1990s and early twenty-first century, weighing these preoccupations against contemporary research, industrial, social and cultural trends. It includes dialogues between current digital media researchers, thinkers and BNMI participants; a student research event and a lecture and book/archive launch by Sarah Cook and Sara Diamond.


Abridged Event Schedule:

Thursday, Jan 31

Graduate Student Research Workshop
10:30-5pm
Hosted by Sara Diamond (OCAD U), Kellogg Booth (NCE GRAND), Sarah Cook (University of Sunderland), Maria Lantin (Emily Carr University of Art + Design)

Keynote Presentation
6-7:30pm
Sara Diamond, Sarah Cook in conversation with Susan Kennard

Euphoria & Dystopia Book Launch & Reception
7:30-9pm
Remarks at 7:45

Friday, Feb 1

Research Symposium
8am-6pm

Seven panel discussions on the following themes:

The Material Known as Data
Physics, Perception & Immersion
Becoming Machine, Staying Human
Social & Individual Identity in New Media
The Art Formerly Known as New Media
Money & Law
Production and Distribution
Confirmed speakers include:
Dr. Kelly Booth, Scientific Director, NCE GRAND
Dr. Abby Goodrum, VP Research, Wilfred Laurier University
Joanna Berzowska, Concordia University
Steve Dietz, Independent Curator
Cheryl l'Hirondelle, Artist
Dr. Eugene Fiume, University of Toronto
Stephen Selznick, Cassels Brock
Mark Bishop, Marble Media
Celia Pearce, Georgia Tech
Lyn Bartram, Simon Fraser University
Jutta Treviranus, IDRC, OCAD University
Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary
Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University
Dr. Sidney Fels, University of British Columbia
Dr. Maria Lantin, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Dr. Sarah Cook, University of Sunderland
Dr. Nina Wakeford, Goldsmiths University
Philip Beesley, University of Waterloo
Susan Kennard, Parks Canada
Keith Kocho, ExtendMedia Inc.
& James Love, Knowledge Ecology International
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